Britain`s dry summer reveals ancient sites
(Artdaily.org)

Previously hidden archaeological sites have emerged in fields across Britain after the hot, dry summer exposed new cropmarks, the Historic England agency said Wednesday. Aerial photographs have exposed patterns which reveal the sites of prehistoric settlements, burial mounds and Iron Age, Bronze Age and Roman farms. Among the new discoveries are two Neolithic monuments near Milton Keynes in central England. These are rectangular-shaped constructions believed to have been enclosed paths or processional ways, usually dating from between 3,600 and 3,000 BC. One monument was recently mapped, but until this year another one next to it was hidden beneath a bank of earth that is being gradually ploughed away. Several of the finds are in the south-west region of Cornwall, including an Iron Age round -- a settlement surrounded by a circular ditch